081 Blood Moon: Continued
The residential designs in Rongcheng have a difference from the north or other regions.
That is, many residential communities, especially non-high-end ones, do not take “facing south” as a particularly important design principle.
The reason is easy to understand.
There is an idiom called “Rong dogs bark at the sun.” Rongcheng has never had much good sunlight to begin with, so compared to “facing south,” many communities will prioritize the orientation of the landscape view.
For example, in a typical large-courtyard plan like Longhu Residential Community, as long as the sunlight meets the minimum standards of the design code, the residents’ balconies can basically face the community’s central landscape courtyard. So standing on the balcony and looking around, Qin Ren could see many people taking out their phones to film the spectacle that had appeared in the sky at this moment—a blood moon.
Not just a blood moon, but judging by its size, it had to be a supermoon.
It should also be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse and a blue moon. It was originally a relatively rare natural phenomenon, the kind that happens once in over a hundred years. But Qin Ren clearly remembered that it had already happened once in January of this year.
At that time, all kinds of media were in a frenzy, [Supermoon, Blue Moon, and Blood Moon Appear Together], and it even triggered a brief “Greedy Blue Moon” meme craze.
How come it’s happening again now…
What happened to once in over a hundred years?
“I’ll check the news.”
Qin Ren took out his phone. Gu Qing looked at the strange sight in the sky, her little mouth forming an “o” of “wow.”
“It’s so pretty…”
As she spoke, she linked her arm with her little brother’s beside her, and her dewy face also leaned over to nuzzle him. Yu Yourong glanced at her, then turned her head to look at Yu Ling’er.
“Master.”
“Mhm…”
Yu Ling’er stared at the sky and nodded, her jade-like hands clasped in front of her lower abdomen, her pupils slightly constricted. She didn’t say anything for the time being, just looked thoughtful.
…
“Mama~! Mama~!”
Tang Bobo’s voice could also be heard from the balcony next door. Luo Yao pursed her lips in disdain.
“Qin Ren! Qin Ren!”
She also shouted loudly.
“Huh? Yaoyao? Is that you?”
“…”
“Are you also looking at the red moon, Yaoyao? We have a telescope at home, but… but Mama is in the shower and won’t let me get it.”
“…”
“Yaoyao—?”
“~”
Although Tang Bobo was sure she had heard Luo Yao’s voice, Luo Yao deliberately didn’t answer. She held Qin Ren’s hand with a strange sense of pride, a hint of a secret smile on her lips.
A little girl’s point of excitement is sometimes just that strange.
…
And on Qin Ren’s side, although he had received many real-time news pushes as soon as he opened his phone, the headlines were mostly filled with words like [Breaking] and [Suddenly Appears], indicating that this blood moon phenomenon was indeed a bit against the natural laws, so it was uncertain whether there would be other accompanying phenomena like a total lunar eclipse.
Of course, besides the major media, various group chats were also very lively.
In just a dozen or so seconds, even though Qin Ren had muted many group chats, his phone was still dinging.
Little Orange alone had sent several messages. Just from the sound of the notifications, Qin Ren could imagine her bouncing around, wanting to chatter and complain to him. He skillfully ignored her for the time being, then opened the [Fatherly Love, Filial Piety 213] roommate group chat and saw that the most excited one was Li Wei, who had previously announced his resignation to start a business and had been incommunicado ever since.
[Li Wei: Well, I’ll be. Have you guys seen it?]
Below was a series of blood moon photos.
[Li Wei: This just gave me an idea.]
[Zhou Chi: Damn? Old Li, you’re not dead yet?]
[Zhang Fei: @Li Wei, who are you?]
…
Qin Ren read on and only then did he find out that Li Wei’s so-called entrepreneurship was to go and write web novels.
Tsk tsk…
Writing?
Isn’t that a dead end?
Qin Ren clicked his tongue, but Li Wei said that he had already signed a contract and was about to go on-shelf. He had been working hard to write and release chapters during this time. It seemed to be some kind of infinite flow. He was just about to switch to an original arc, and today’s blood moon had just given him an idea.
[Zhou Chi: Oh, I get it. On the surface, it’s an idea. In reality, are you going to copy the setting of that very popular book, Starting from the Blood Moon?]
[Li Wei: Bullshit. Can a scholar’s business be called copying?… The blood moon appears, all kinds of Cthulhu creatures awaken, and the world is instantly plunged into a bloody storm. How about it? Brother Ren, Zhang Fei, has it aroused your desire to read?]
Li Wei and the frequent Zhou Chi might have something to talk about, but Qin Ren wasn’t very interested. He hadn’t read web novels in a long time.
And Cthulhu and stuff…
Qin Ren thought about it carefully. Among the Demonic Scions he had exorcised before, there were a few with that vibe. He really wasn’t interested in the yy in fantasy literature.
Zhang Fei also said that he was old now and didn’t read that kind of genre.
[Zhang Fei: Get lost with all the fighting and killing. This old man is now returning to his original heart. I like to read light-hearted, romantic stuff. For example, there’s a writer called Yi Wen Dao who wrote I Really Don’t Want to Reload. It’s pretty good. It’s even going to be adapted into a comic soon.]
[Li Wei: Damn! I want to be adapted too! Just you wait.]
[Zhou Chi: Hey, hey, brothers. Speaking of which, I think I’ve seen a good one of that kind of anime, called Blood Moon Brothel. It’s about a pair of siblings…]
…
The group chat was lively but also chaotic. There were always a few people like Zhou Chi who could turn any conversation in a strange direction. Qin Ren briefly browsed the other messages and didn’t find anything of value. He couldn’t help but look up and start to wonder if this huge blood moon could be related to some Demonic Scion…
However, to be able to affect the celestial phenomena… was there such a powerful Demonic Scion?
Just as he was feeling suspicious, the blood moon in the sky suddenly faded its blood color in the blink of an eye.
“Oh-ho—”
Like a city-wide blackout, cries of surprise rang out almost in unison from the residential community and the street.
Indeed, this change came too quickly. The spectacle of the blood moon was a fleeting one. There was a gradual change, but the transition was very rapid. After the huge moon returned to its original hazy, jade-like color, its size also began to slowly return to normal.
“Qin Ren.”
“Hm?”
At this moment, Yu Ling’er, who had been looking up and pondering, came over, wanting to say something, but then she glanced at Gu Qing beside him.
“It’s fine.”
Qin Ren smiled.
“We’re all family. Go ahead.”
Gu Qing also nodded. The ponytail behind her head swayed, with a slight curl. It was light and airy, its length and position somewhere between the OL version of Little Orange and Yu Yourong. It was full of a pure feeling, like a high school class monitor.
“Yu… mmm… Master Yu, is there something unusual about this moon?”
On the surface, she looked calm, but in fact, Gu Qing was also deliberately asking, wanting to integrate more into the current magical atmosphere of the family.
“Unusual… actually, it’s more like returning to normal.”
Yu Ling’er said very seriously.
“Qin Ren, it’s about that hole in the sky…”
“Hole?”
“Mhm, mhm.”
Yu Ling’er gestured with her two hands. Actually, she didn’t know what she was gesturing.
“It’s the one that Yourong and I flew through…”
“The planar rift?”
“Right, right!”
Yu Ling’er blushed a little, then cleared her throat.
“That planar rift… it seems to have closed.”
